Monterey Jazz Festival: Sonny ends it

The festival is over. Sonny Rollins just played a two-hour set. He is 81 years old and an amazing man, an ORIGINAL man. He is the human bellows who baffles. He blows and blows and blows, saunters to the front of the stage with his tenor saxophone and honks, plays the blues, or holds REALLY long notes or imitates human speech with the craziest squiggles and smears. He never plays “Pent-up House” or “Dance of the Infidels,” and he never will again. He plays obscure tunes that were on the radio when he was 10, or two-chord modal anthems, or funky little ditties that he wrote the other day.
His music tonight was largely about rhythm — he’s got two drummers, a conguero and a trap drummer. And it was about his sound, cutting through that rhythm. He didn’t pace the show well, sometimes wandered around playing riffs and bits of tunes, listening to his sidemen. It was odd, but it happens like this with Rollins. You hang in with him, watching and listening as he pursues his sound: massive and thick, carnivalesque, celebratory. He’s an avant-garde populist; he should be leading a street parade.
And at the end of the two hours, that’s what he was doing, in a way. He started playing “Don’t Stop the Carnival” and the infectiousness of what he’d been pursuing all night kicked in. The crowd got on its feet and danced, cheering for Sonny as Sonny cheered for them with his saxophone. Monterey had ended.

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Love the way you write, man…thank you so much…made me feel like I was right there with you, all the way..have a safe ride home
PS..I sure hope that some writer cuts me as much slack as you cut Sonny when I’m 81 and wandering around on stage, cuz when you’re 81 wandering as you wonder at it all has to be par for the course!